TY - BOOK AU - Lyons,Paul ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. imagination T2 - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures AV - PS159.O28 L96 2006 U1 - 810.9/3295 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York, London PB - Routledge KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Oceania KW - In literature KW - Foreign public opinion, American KW - United States KW - Relations KW - Pacific Area KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index; Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality -- Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism -- Opening accounts in the South Seas : Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, James Fenimore Cooper's The crater, and the antebellum development of American Pacificism -- Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter -- From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania -- Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms : A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism -- Conclusion : changing pre-scriptions : varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=273680 ER -